Avail Sept 1 but you can preorder it now, download it and read it Monday at the family BBQ! And then you can tell me what you think about it! And send me chocolate...

Books are limited.  If you are around, swing by!  

I have no shame!  I'll pimp my book day after day if I have to!  On Sept 1st, JOLT will be available at boldstrokesbooks.com paperback or ebook.  Available Sept 16th everywhere else - Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Books A Million. I love it!  Buy it, read it, support me, say nice things!  :)  Thanks!

So this weekend I am in Dallas. Last night I slept about 2.5 hours. First of all it's freezing in here. Secondly, both of my friends snore. Thirdly, I know I should be writing but I ran away but it's weighing on my mind. sigh. Where's my laptop???

Here's a pic of the rott/lab who squeezes in-between the bed and the wall - and runs in her sleep... yep... sounds like Freddy Krueger at 2 a.m.

I pick my dad up at the airport in 3 hours!  That gives me just enough time to clean up my week's mess!  Of course I'm smack dab in the middle of a Will & Grace marathon.  My parents have cable (I don't) so it's been a real treat. I need a Will in my life. Or Grace's hair.  Anyway, let's take away 1/2 hour for dinner and 20 minutes to drive up there... hmmm... perhaps I should get movin'...

So yesterday is saw a snake stuck in an office chair downstairs. Yes, a snake.  Yes, inside. I grabbed some scissors and carefully (while squealing every single time it moved) cut it loose from the threads of the chair's underbelly. I didn't think about what to do AFTER I freed it. Needless to say, somewhere in this house there is a snake curled up, planning some kind of revenge, I'm sure. I needed NyQuil to sleep last night. Only two more nights...

I adore my parents' dogs. They are sweet and kind and very lovable, but I only like them 18 hours a day. Last night was my first night house/pet sitting over there and the rott/lab mix snored the entire night so sleep was fleeting. The tiny weenie dog has a severe under bite and I was amazed at the sounds coming from her as well. Not to mention the 100 lb rott/lab tries to squeeze into a tiny area between the bed and the wall and tries to run in her sleep. It sounds like Freddy Krueger is coming to get me at 2 a.m. as her nails scrape the wall. 

I don't snore.  I really don't.  I've awakened to people standing over me checking to make sure I'm alive because they can't tell if I'm breathing or not. Yeah, that's a little scary. Perhaps that's the reason I don't get enough sleep every night.  I am just a very light sleeper. So I am off to tackle night #2/8. Wish me luck!

Is it just me, or has this week been dragging?  Normally I don't complain, but I swear I've had at least two Mondays already, a couple of Tuesdays, Wednesday never ended... I'm done.  I need a break!  I need the weekend.  Next week I'm house and pet sitting so I will have a lot of downtime to write and relax. Or so I think. We ALL know how that goes.

So this weekend I'm doing a Meet Up event at a local coffee shop.  I am forcing myself to meet new people. I'm also working at my first soup kitchen downtown. A bunch of us gathered up school supplies and snackies for the kids who go to the kitchen. I usually stay behind the scenes, but this week... NO MORE!  This week I'm grabbing a hair net and making it happen. I shall meet even more people.

Maybe because this weekend is exciting, I'm anxious for it to start!  Nah, I swear, the week is definitely moving in slow motion.